The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-08-10

tive shape brings best prices.
Young and growing animals are the
most profitable for the farmer.
The best breed is good care, good
water, good feed and good barn.
1t is better to cultivate a few acres
thoroughly than to skim over many.
Coarse wooled sheep are more liable to
be infested with ticks than merinos.
Hardy ferns are beautiful about the
house in spots too shady to grow grass.
If young horses suffer from cramps,
give laxative food, such as bran mashes.
Tomatoes planted among melons and
squashes are reported as helping to keep
off insects.
If tomato vines are not trained or
staked up, use brush to keep the tomatoes
off the ground.
A solution of saltpetre-an ounce to a
gallon of water-is used by some in fight
ing the squash-borer.
A successful radish grower recommends
making the. beds with nearly one-half
soft coal, ashes and SCOT as preventive
of worms.
English horticulturists recommend a
solution of fir tree oil in water for the de-
struction of green fly on peach and
nectarine trees.
A grindstone conveniently placed ready
for use leaves no excuse for working with
dull ak or other cutting instrument that
never does good work.
Cucumber vines sometimes die as soon
as they begin to bear, because injured by
pulling or twisting off the fruit. Cut
it off with knife or scissors.
Better be late in seeding than to plow
when land is too wet, for that may in
jure its condition so that years will be
required to effect restoration.
A cause of many failures, according
to a poultry man, is the attempt to
keep a large number of fowls when the
proper amount of care cannot be given.
Grass should be cut, if possible, when
it is dry. When help is plenty it Is
better to do this work in the afternoon,
after the heat of the day has partially
subsidized.
Coal ashes are not fit for the dust box
until the cinders have been sifted out. A
hen cannot throw coal cinders on her
back. They are too heavy; besides, they
hurt her feet.
The struggle against weeds may be
continued in autumn with more or less
success as long as their seeds can be in.
duced to sprout, ready for destruction
by the harrow.
A Vermont farmer plants sunfower
seed instead of pole to each hill OF
beans. The sturdy stalk answered for a
pole, and the seeds supply al excellent
feed for poultry.
The best labels for marking plants are
made from zinc, and only q common
lead pencil is needed to mark them. The
writing is at first faint, bat becomes dis
tinct when exposed to the weather.
Beans are rich in nitrogen, and are
good food for any sort of animals.
Hogs may be fattened on them. There
is nothing better for sheep, and they
are just the thing for cows in milk.
Farm horses protected by thin blankets
from flies in hot weather will keep in
good condition much more easily than if
exposed to the torment of innumerable
bites during all the hours of the long,
hot days.
Calves must be kept thrifty from the
first with no setback, if they are to be-
come fully developed early, and this is
the only way to get satisfactory profits
from raising them, whether for the dairy
or the shombles.
The onion crop must have nitrogen.
Ashes have frequently been applied
where the same plot was planted year
after year, but they are lacking in nitro.
gen, and sooner or later the bottom will
90 out of the land.
Near a good market where celery can
be sold easily, it is good crop to grow
with onions. The constant tillage of the
land in fall for banking celery leaves the
land free from seeds and weeds, and in
fine order for next years work.
The object of blowing corn in dry
season is not so much to kill the weeds
as to form mulch of dry dirt that will
condense the moisture in the shape of
dew, and that will conserve or save the
moisture that comes up from the hidden
reservoirs below.
It is said that the relative cost of rails
ing a pound of pork and a pound OF
chicken is as three to four, that is, If
pound of pork cost six cents, pound OF
chicken will cost eight. But while the
cost of production is so nearly alike, the
price realized is about in the ratio of one
to three, or, in other words, when pork
sell at six cents pound, chickens will
bring eighteen cents pound. Less "hog
and hominy" and more roast chicken for
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